创新的合约选择与企业家精神

该文探讨熊彼特意义上的企业家在科斯一张五常企业理论中存在的合理性.经验上,相对于有形产品,就无形的产品创意进行交易和定价的费用显然要高很多.据此,该文的逻辑大致是:当产品创意的交易费用过高,以至于通过合约出让产品创意的选择受到了限制时,放弃对它进行直接交易和定价,转而对经由产品创意生产出来的有形产品进行交易和定价,就是节省交易费用的一种选择.不过,一旦创新者通过这种间接定价方式实现来自产品创意的收入,那么,理论上它也就成为现代企业理论中熊彼特意义上的创新企业家了.

THE ENTREPRENEURIAL THEORY OF THE FIRM

The purpose of this paper is to provide some rationale for the existence of the Schumpeterian entrepreneur in the theory of the firm.It is well known that transacting intangible knowledge is more difficult and costly than any other tangible goods. Theoretically,if the costs of pricing intangible idea are too high,it tends to be economical to forgo any direct pricing of the idea itself,and to price the tangible goods stemming from the intangible idea instead.If the valuable idea or knowledge is priced in thi...